"PBI-Honduras accompanies National Union of Rural Workers and campesina community threatened by sugar company", 27 December 2023

...The peasant group Agua Blanca Sur, affiliated to the National Central of Rural Workers in the region of Progreso, has been carrying out a process of land recovery since January of this year in the sector of Guanchías, El Progreso.

For the past 3 months, its members have been harassed by members of the National Police who have arrived at the premises with threats of eviction, without a court order. They also denounced the presence of drones flying over the premises.

On 15 November, at 11 a.m. in Santa Rita, Yoro, agents of the National Police detained, without an arrest warrant, human rights defender Maribel Díaz García…

A few days later, the national police and security guards from the Azunosa company evicted the land, leaving the 60 families belonging to the Agua Blanca Sur peasant group homeless...